¡Boricua! New York City’s largest Latin community since the 1940s
Puerto Rican NYC
Hamilton
Dark Mondays
RICHARD RODGERS THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
The Broadway hit of our generation was written by Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Freestyle Love Supreme)
Chicago the Musical
Dark Wednesdays
AMBASSADOR THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
The original leading ladies of the longest running U.S. musical were Puerto Rican and Italian (Chita Rivera & Liza Minelli)
West Side Story Broadway
Previews to February 6, 2020
BROADWAY THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
One of the great love stories, one of the great New York stories, is our story too
La Canción
Thursday, February 6, 2020
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
Kips Bay, NYC
Puerto Rican reggaeton legend VICO C’s hip-hop musical
Miguel Zenón
Sunday, March 8, 2020
BIRDLAND
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Zenón joins the Berklee All Star Ensemble
Gilberto Santa Rosa
Friday, March 20, 2020
BEACON THEATRE
Upper West Side, NYC
“Perdoname,” the Puerto Rican romantic salsa singer “El Caballero de la Salsa” is making the rounds
Salsa Saturdays
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Summer Saturdays
LA MARQUETA
East Harlem, NYC
NYC’s version of dancing salsa at La Placita in Santurce, Puerto Rico. FREE
Puerto Rican NYC Festivals
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2020
Sunday, June 14, 2020
FIFTH AVENUE
Midtown, NYC
America’s largest cultural celebration is Puerto Rican!
Puerto Rican Heritage Month
November
UNITED STATES
The Puerto Rican diaspora celebrates our heritage on the month when Columbus landed and claimed the island for Spain in 1493. ¡WEPA!
El Museo del Barrio Three Kings Day Parade 2020
Monday, January 6, 2020
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
LA MARQUETA
East Harlem, NYC
Giant puppets, camels, parrandas, BombaYo, Annette Aguilar, Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater, Fogo Azul NYC, and the Three Kings bring the true spirit of the holidays to El Barrio. ¡WEPA!
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PRIDA Puerto Rican Artisan’s Holiday Market
Sunday, December 8, 2019
EL BARRIO EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ Get handmade gifts by Puerto Rican artists for the holidays at this Christmas market at Artspace PS109
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MegaBash 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
NEWARK, New Jersey ~ La Mega 97.9FM brings the stars of reggaeton and latin trap: Alex Sensation, Ozuna, Farruko, Luis Fonsi, Prince Royce, REIK, V Manuelle, Becky G, Jhay Cortez, Ivy Queen, Lunay and Chimbala to Prudential Center
Hispanic Day Parade 2019
Sunday, October 13, 2019
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Twenty-one countries from around the world celebrate our Hispanic Heritage on Fifth Avenue
National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo
Sat, November 23, 2019
CONCOURSE, The Bronx ~ The Fair weaves handicrafts and poetry into the fabric of Puerto Rican community at Hostos College
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Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival screens the diaspora
Wed-Sun, Nov 13-17, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE & LOWER EAST SIDE ~ Films by and of the Puerto Rican diaspora at Teatro Círculo, Cantor Film Center NYU, King Juan Carlos Center at NYU and Teatro SEA
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Soulfrito 2019
Friday, August 30, 2019
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ Rap, Reggaeton and Latin Trap featuring Ozuna, A Boogie, Farruko, Gunna, Jeremih, Arcangel, El Alfi, Duki, over 20 artists at Barclays Center
New York Salsa Congress
PARTIES Sat-Wed, Aug 24-28
FEST Thu-Sun, Aug 29-Sep 1
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ A week of dancing in spots all over Manhattan ends with a weekend of salsa workshops, performances and dancing to live music by Tony Vega, Moncho Rivera and Doug Beavers
AfriBembé Festival 2019
Sunday, August 18, 2019
EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ The Caribbean Cultural Center hosts a Pan-African cultural festival and street fair around East Harlem Art Park on 120th St between Lexington and Third Ave
Carnaval del Barrio brings Aguadilla, Puerto Rico to 116th St
Fri-Sun, August 2-4, 2019
EL BARRIO, EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ A fun family street fair on 116th St with live music inspired by Las Fiestas Patronales of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
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Afro-Latino Festival 2019
Fri-Sat, July 12-13, 2019
DOWNTOWN, Brooklyn ~ Mariachi Flor de Toloache and José Alberto “El Canario” headline this festival of concerts, talks and food from the African diaspora
116th Street Festival 2019 is a Puerto Rican party!
Sat, Jun 8, 2019
Puerto Rican street fair
EL BARRIO EAST HARLEM ~ The Northeast’s biggest street fair is a Puerto Rican party
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152nd Street Cultural Festival celebrates Puerto Rican culture ¡Boricua!
WOODSTOCK, THE BRONX | Sat, May 25, 2019 | Puerto Rican street fair | The warm-up to the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. FREE
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Mega Mezcla 2019
NEWARK, NJ; Sun, Apr 19, 2019 ~ Reggaeton concert ~ Colombian DJ Alex Sensation brings out his friends Ozuna, J Balvin, Farruko, Anuel AA, Karol G, El Alfa, Jowell y Randy, Manuel Turizo and more
La Casita Sings the Poetry and Music of Our Communities
LINCOLN CENTER & PREGONES THEATER, Sat-Sun, Aug 4-5, 2018 ~ La Casita gives voice to the poetry and music of our communities
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Afro-Latino Fest 2018
Afro- Brazilian, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Haitian, Mexican, Panamanian, Puerto Rican talk, movies and music.
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TALKS
Schomberg Center
Harlem, Manhattan
Friday, July 13, 2018
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FILM FESTIVAL
Abron Center
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Saturday, July 14, 2018
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CONCERT
The Well
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Puerto Rican New York City
The late 1960s/70s Nuyorican Movement was our “Harlem Renaissance.” New York institutions like the Nuyorican Poets Café, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center and El Museo del Barrio were formed then.
Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education
HUNTS POINT, The Bronx
Charitable school for South Bronx youth that gets kids into college
El Museo del Barrio
Wednesday-Sunday
EAST HARLEM, NYC
Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American art museum and community center
Pregones / PRTT
CONCOURSE, The Bronx
Two Puerto Rican community theaters, Pregones and Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, carry on Caribbean theater traditions as Pregones/PRTT
Hostos Center
HOSTOS COLLEGE
CONCOURSE, THE BRONX
College performing arts center that presents a lot of Latin culture
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Teatro SEA
LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC
A great bilingual children’s theatre that uses lots of puppetry
Schomburg Center
Monday-Saturday
HARLEM, NYC
This library of African culture grew out of the literary collection of Puerto Rican collector Arturo Alfonso Schomburg during the Harlem Renaissance
You can also find Puerto Rican culture at the American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Puerto Rican New Yorkers
Some Puerto Rican New Yorkers call themselves Nuyorican, but to us that means the late 1960s/1970s Puerto Rican cultural and literary movement in the Lower East Side (Loisaida), East Harlem (El Barrio), Williamsburg and the South Bronx.
Nicky Jam
Tuesday, March 17, 2019
Nick Rivera Caminero was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on March 17, 1981
Jennifer Lopez
Friday, July 24, 2020
CHAPEL HILL, The Bronx
The Puerto Rican actress and pop superstar was born on July 24, 1969
Ismael Miranda
Saturday, December 21, 2019
WELLMONT THEATER
Montclair, New Jersey
“El Niño Bonito de la Salsa” is joined by Tito Rojas, Ray de la Paz and Willie Alvarez for a Danceable Salsa Concert
Los Pleneros de la 21
Wed, December 18, 2019
JULIA DE BURGOS CENTER
El Barrio, East Harlem, NYC
Celebrate Christmas Puerto Rican style with a bomba and plena Parranda cycle ¡WEPA!
Los Hacheros
Saturday, December 7, 2019
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ Relive the Golden Age of 1970s salsa with Los Hacheros’ old school charanga sound (flute/violin) for Carnegie Hall Citywide at the Brooklyn Museum
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Louie Vega
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
3 DOLLAR BILL
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Legendary Puerto Rican house DJ spins Thanksgiving Weekend 1990s Flashback
Lee Quiñones: Language Barriers
Wed-Sat, Nov 6-Dec 20, 2019
JAMES FUENTES GALLERY
Lower East Side, NYC
The iconic New York City graffiti artist of the 1970s (Puerto Rican) shows pieces of his creative past
Carlos Henriquez
December 26-31, 2019
DIZZY’S CLUB
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
Columbus Circle, NYC
Ring in the New Year with NYC’s most important Latin Jazz artist (Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra)
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La India
Friday, November 8, 2019
PASSAIC, New Jersey ~ The chart-topping, Latin Grammy and Guinness Book of Records-winning Puerto Rican salsa singer plays Fiesta Night Club
Marc Anthony’s ‘Opus’ swims against the current with more Puerto Rican salsa
Saturday, November 2, 2019
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ The best-selling tropical salsa artist of all time pours another round of Puerto Rican salsa at Barclays Center
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Eddie Palmieri
Saturday, April 25, 2020
KUPFERBERG CENTER
Flushing, Queens
One of the living legends of Latin jazz and Puerto Rican salsa is still going strong at 83
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Melissa Misla’s APT 9D is Nuyorican art in two places at once
QUEENS COLLEGE, KEW GARDENS HILLS; Apr 9-13, 2019; New York Puerto Rican Indigenous Taíno art exhibition ~ RECEPTIONS Tue, Apr 9 & Sat, Apr 13
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Flaco Navaja’s Evolution of a Sonero Puerto Rican musical at the Public
NOHO, Jan 12-13, 2019, Sat-Sun ~ Flaco and his Razor Blades rap on growing up with Pedro Navaja & Hector Lavoe, but staying clean in The Bronx.
# puerto rican off broadway musical
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“Boom for Real” Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sunday, December 22, 2019
“BOOM FOR REAL”
A documentary about Basquiat’s early years and the City that formed the landmark Haitian-Puerto Rican artist from Brooklyn
Nydia Velázquez
U.S. Representative NY District 7. First Latina on the New York City Council and first Puerto Rican woman in U.S. Congress.
MANHATTAN
Lower East Side, East Village
BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Greenpoint, Red Hook, Williamsburg
QUEENS
Maspeth, Ridgewood, Woodside
Bernie Williams
Friday, October 12, 2018
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Schimmel Center
PACE University
Financial District, Manhattan
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The former Puerto Rican MLB All-Star Yankee center fielder is a great Latin Grammy-nominated jazz and rock musician too.
Carlina Rivera
New York City Council District #2
East Village, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay, Lower East Side, Murray Hill, Rose Hill
Mambo Legends Orchestra are players from Tito Puente’s orchestra
Midsummer Night Swing
Damrosch Park Lincoln Center
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
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Puerto Rican fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez ‘Instamatics’ of the 1970s
Danziger Gallery
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Tuesday – Saturday
March 8 – April 28, 2018
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Angel Otero ‘Elegies’ Puerto Rican art at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Concourse Village, The Bronx
October 25, 2017 – April 29, 2018
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Arte de La Borinqueña is an exhibition about the Puerto Rican superhero
Oct 4, 2017-Jan 6, 2018
HUNTS POINT, The Bronx ~ The art of the first Puerto Rican superhero at Casita Maria Gallery
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Julio Monge to play Tiresias in “Oedipus El Rey” at the Public Theater
Public Theater
425 Lafayette St
East Village
Tuesday – Sunday
October 3 – November 19, 2017
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Diana Ayala
New York City Council District 8
El Barrio/East Harlem, Mott Haven, Highbridge, Concourse, Longwood, & Port Morris
Puerto Ricans
We are a blend of Indigenous Taíno, Spanish European and African
Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
Saturday, February 15, 2020
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Midtown, NYC
The most popular salsa band ever is joined by Jerry Rivera and Tito Nieves for a night of Puerto Rican salsa. “Brujeria,” “Arroz con Habichuelas,” “Un Verano en Nueva York”…
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Francisco Oller
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico
The Impressionist painter who worked with the Impressionists in Europe, briefly taught Paul Cézanne, and transformed Caribbean painting, was born on June 17, 1833
Roberto Clemente
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico ~ The first great Latin baseball player was born in Barrio San Antón on August 18, 1934
Tito Rojas
Saturday, December 21, 2019
WELLMONT THEATER
Montclair, New Jersey
“El Gallo Salsero” joins Ismael Miranda, Ray de la Paz and Willie Alvarez for a Danceable Salsa Concert
Bad Bunny
Friday, December 6, 2019
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ The Puerto Rican bad boy of Latin trap and reggaeton brings his X100Pre Tour (Para Siempre, Forever) to Barclays Center
Farruko
Friday, November 29, 2019
Newark, New Jersey ~ ‘Baila Baila Baila’ and ‘Calma’ at the Mega Bash at Prudential Center
Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound is a Puerto Rican salsa legend
Saturday, October 12, 2019
JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens ~ ‘Tu Loco, Loco, Pero Yo Tranquilo.’ They don’t make Puerto Rican salsa music like that any more. Once the band starts, you can’t stop dancing.
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Ozuna
Friday, November 29, 2019
MEGA BASH
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Newark, New Jersey ~ The Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin trap star celebrates the release of “Nibiru”
La Sonora Ponceña
Saturday, November 2, 2019
JEROME PARK, The Bronx ~ One of Puerto Rico’s legendary salsa bands plays Lehman Center. “Moreno soy, porque nací de la rumba…”
Visitante Eduardo Cabra is Trending Tropics
Wed, September 4, 2019
HUDSON SQUARE, NYC ~ Eduardo Cabra of Calle 13, one of the producers who seems to be unlimited in the types of Latin music he makes well, brings his latest project, Trending Tropics to SOB’s
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Jerry Rivera
Saturday, August 31, 2019
WOODSIDE, Queens ~ Dance to ‘Amores como el nuestro’, ‘Cara de niño’, ‘Casí un Hechizo’, and ‘Que Hay de Malo’ up close and personal at Mamajuana Cafe Queens
‘Devórame otra vez’ Lalo Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican salsa legend
Friday, July 26, 2019
CLASON POINT, The Bronx ~ The salsa romántica legend’s songs make you want to make love, ¡Ya! The Bronx will be bouncing tonight.
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Ricardo Rosselló, it’s time to go. ¡Ricky Renuncia!
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ~ The inept and corrupt governor has entered popular culture like Juan Bobo, but Bobo is always saved in the end by his good heart. What will save you? ¡Ricky Renuncia!
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iLe
Saturday, March 16, 2019
EL BARRIO EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ In her solo work Ileana Cabra, the multi-Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer from Calle 13 shows the strength and grace of Violeta Parra at El Museo del Barrio. FREE
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Daddy Yankee
2018 LATIN GRAMMYS, Thu, November 15, 2018 ~ “Dura” Best Urban Song
Luis Fonsi
I don’t know why he’s asking. I always get blamed.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018
Wisin y Yandel
Madison Square Garden
Chelsea, Manhattan
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Nadine Sierra
Susana in ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
December 29 – January 19
Friday, January 19, 2018
Laurie Hernandez is a star Gymnast, dancer, author and beyond
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2017 Athlete of the Year
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Modesto Lacen
The Puerto Rican actor best known for his role as Pedro Knight, the husband of Celia Cruz in the telenovela “Celia.”
Maelo Ruiz
The Puerto Rican Salsa singer joins the “Love in Salsa” concert at Lehman Center Sat, Feb 11, 2017
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz ‘Fragile Mirrors’ at El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, Jan 11 – Apr 30, 2017 ~ Puerto Rican performance artist.
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Papo Colo ~ Procesión-Migración
The Puerto Rican performance artist gets support for his latest performance Procesión-Migración with the Puertos Ricos Festival at MoMA PS1 Jan 6-8, 2017
Luis Negron ‘Mundo Cruel’
December 7, 2012 ~ The hit first book by Puerto Rican author Luis Negrón about loneliness and the crazy things it drives us to do, is one of those books you can’t put down.
Puerto Rican Culture
Bomba + Plena + Salsa + Reggaeton + Latin Trap, Parranda, Theatre
Like all the Latin world, the heart of Puerto Rico is family. The main thing we do in Puerto Rico is eat and drink with family and friends on the beaches and in the mountains all over the island. To “chinchorrear” is to go from one surf shack bar to the next all day long late into the night. Then we start singing and dancing. Then…
Salsa is Cuban dance music of the 1950s developed by many Caribbean cultures, but it’s mostly Puerto Rican. It has Puerto Rican folkloric bomba and plena in it.
Reggaeton is Jamaican-Panamanian-New Yorker, but Puerto Ricans made it global. Latin trap is the next sound after reggaeton.
Puerto Rico has the world’s longest Christmas holiday traditions. The Parranda is Christmas caroling Puerto Rican style. We celebrate from Puerto Rico Discover Day on November 19 through Thanksgiving, Christmas, Three Kings, Las Octavitas and the San Sebastián Street Festival ends on January 20.
We have strong theatre traditions. Chita Rivera, Rita Moreno and Raul Julia are Broadway and film legends. Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (Freestyle Love Supreme, In the Heights) wrote Hamilton which is the Broadway hit of our generation. Rosie Perez, Benicio del Toro, Gina Rodriguez, Luis Guzmán and Modesto Lacen are amazing.
La Parranda
November 19 to January 21
Christmas caroling Puerto Rican style is aguinaldos, cuatros, lechón, pasteles, arroz con gandules, morcilla, coquito, chinchorreo and lots more with family and friends from Discovery Day through Three Kings, then the Octavitas, then the San Sebastián Street Festival, and then we go back to work
Saint James
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Loíza, Puerto Rico
Celebrate the feast of one of the disciples of Jesus, patron saint of Spain, Guatemala and Loíza, Puerto Rico
National Rum Day
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Enjoy the spirit of the Caribbean
Changó, Xangô, Sàngó or Santa Barbara
Friday, December 4, 2020
NIGERIA, CUBA, BRAZIL
Celebrate Changó (also Xangô, Sàngó or Saint Barbara), the Yoruba Orisha (patron saint) of fire, lightning, thunder and war, but also of music, drumming and dancing
Las Octavitas
Thursday, January 7-14, 2020
The octave of Three Kings Day extends Christmas in Puerto Rico for eight more days to Las Fiestas de la Calle de San Juan
Reggaeton
Latin rap, by the Jamaican diaspora in Panama, jumped to New York, and developed in Puerto Rico before going worldwide. Colombians are making great reggaeton now too. “Tu Pun Pun, mami-mami, no…”
Puerto Rico
January 2020 ~ Puerto Rico tourism is at your service. Tourism is fine. The 2020 earthquakes only affect a small part of the island and the remaining damage from 2017’s Hurricane Maria is in the countryside. The affected people need and deserve help, but the best thing you can do to help Puerto Ricans is to spend your tourism dollars enjoying yourself in Puerto Rico.
Aibonito Flower Festival
Daily June 28-July 7, 2019
Puerto Rican festival
AIBONITO, Puerto Rico ~ This country fair has amazing flowers, kiddie rides, and lots of food, drink and dancing to live salsa legends
RAMAS Festival ~ Rincón Alternative Music Art Surf
RINCÓN, PUERTO RICO; Fri-Sun Mar 22-24, 2019; Surfing art music festival ~ Big party for the surfers in Puerto Rico this weekend. Yellow Man, Pirulo y La Tribu and Fofé y Los Fetiches headline. “Ja man”
San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 2019 ~ Discover San Juan with New York Latin Culture Magazine editor Keith Widyolar as we begin publishing on tour of the Latin capitals
Gracias